Gordon Dahlquist
Gordon Dahlquist is an American playwright, theater director, novelist and experimental filmmaker. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Dahlquist has lived and worked in New York City since 1988. His plays, which include Mesilina and Delirium Palace (both Garland Playwriting Award winners), have been performed in New York and Los Angeles. His experimental short films have been accepted at multiple festivals.
Dahlquist's debut novel The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, a hybrid of fantasy and science fiction set in a period similar to the Victorian era, was published on August 1, 2006, to notable critical acclaim. Dahlquist was reportedly paid an advance of $2,000,000 for The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, the first of a two-book deal.[1] Its sales were disappointing and it is estimated to have lost its publisher, Bantam, approximately $851,500.[2] The sequel to The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters , The Dark Volume, was published in the UK by Penguin on May 1, 2008, and March 24, 2009 in the United States. A third volume, The Chemickal Marriage is due for publication in July 2012.[3]
His other claims to fame are that he brought a case against NASA for allegedly stealing rocks from his property for use in 'faked moon landings'[4] and that material he gathered for a documentary on the 'faked moon landings' supposedly inspired the film Capricorn One. (The story is that his research material was taken by Dahlquist's landlady in lieu of unpaid rent and purchased in 1976 by executives of Warner Brothers from a boot sale in Orlando[5]
Works
He has written several plays, including:
- Messalina
- Babylon is Everywhere: A Court Masque
- Delirium Palace
- The Secret Machine
- Vortex du Plaisir
- Island of Dogs
- Severity’s Mistress
- Mission Byzantium!
- Reticence
Writing as G.W. Dahlquist he is the author of two fantasy thriller novels:
- The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (2006)
- The Dark Volume (2008)
References
- ^ Publishers Weekly
- ^ Have We Reached the End of Publishing as We Know it?
- ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Chemickal-Marriage-Gordon-Dahlquist/dp/0670921637/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0
- ^ http://www.new-classics.co.uk/html/fiction.html
- ^ http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0%2C%2C1000070832%2C00.html
External links
- Author's Bio
- Biography and interview at bookreporter.com
- Author's Q&A with Powell's Books
- Interview with G W Dahlquist on Author's Lounge TV
- Gordon Dahlquist at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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